Semantico’s SIPP2 powers BrillOnline Reference Works and BrillOnline Bibliographies

Posted on by Clare Wratten

Semantico, a leading provider of services and technology for online publishing, has recently used their new SIPP2 product to power a revised version of BrillOnline for reference works and bibliographies. Brill is an international publishing house based in the Netherlands, specialising in humanities, international law and sciences.

SIPP2 is the brand new version of Semantico’s industry-leading software. SIPP2 is a blazingly fast, elegant and intelligent solution designed to give publishers and information providers an unrivalled level of control over digital content and get maximum value from their publishing programmes.

Brill and Semantico have had a long-standing and successful professional relationship since the launch of Brill Reference Works Online in October 2005, which has enjoyed a healthy growth in subscriptions and product offerings over the past five years. As part of their ongoing commitment to excellence Brill initiated the revised interface for BrillOnline to further enhance user experience and discoverability of content using SIPP2.

Sam Bruinsma, Vice-President Business Development and Electronic Publishing at Brill said: “We’re very excited to be launching our improved online service: BrillOnline Reference Works and BrillOnline Bibliographies. Customer satisfaction is of paramount importance to Brill, and the impressive and improved operational speed of the site will have a positive impact on this.”

Richard Padley, Managing Director of Semantico commented: “We are proud to launch SIPP2 for BrillOnline Reference Works.  Our expert team of developers and programmers have worked tirelessly to create, develop and test this product, and we’re delighted to see this go live. It’s been a pleasure to work with Brill on this project, and we look forward to more of the same in the future.”

The key features of SIPP2 are:
Content Manager:

  • Unrivalled control over your publication schedule.
  • Support for a broad range of content types: books, journals, databases, Q&A.
  • Ingest XML, PDF, rich media (image, video, audio), DocBook, TEI and MathML.

Integrated workflow:

  • Content Manager interface streamlines content load and simplifies management of core content on staging and live environments.
  • Real time versioning and rollback.
  • Integrated WebCMS for the management of marketing or additional contextual content.
  • Fully extensible architecture.
  • Intuitive UI.

Semantic content support:

  • Blazingly fast full text search powered by Solr.
  • Rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse.
  • Options for semantic data enrichment with TEMIS.
  • Crawl, aggregate and link content across multiple websites.
  • Powerful linked content API.

Enhanced search functionality:

  • Suggest results as you type.
  • Suggest spelling variants and synonyms.
  • Fielded search using query syntax.
  • Advanced fielded search: Boolean, wildcards.
  • Search results faceting.

Support for multiple business / subscription models:

  • Integrate with SAMS to offer multiple subscription and PPV models, e-commerce.

BookBrowse:

  • Embeddable HTML5 widget.
  • Preview or read full book content.
  • Fine grained control of preview at page level.
  • Powerful API.

Search engine optimisation:

  • Meta data for Google Scholar.
  • Support for rich snippets.

Institutional support & reporting:

  • Industry standard authentication mechanisms (IP, Referrer URL, Shibboleth, Athens).
  • Export MARC records.
  • COUNTER and ICOLC reports.
  • Google Analytics.

Way-finding

User-centric services

Extended platform support:

  • SIPP2 generated pages render on Apple, BlackBerry and Android mobiles and tablets.

Other tools:

  • Export citations (EndNote, Refworks, Mendeley).
  • Share this page.
  • Recommend to your library.

For BrillOnline Reference Works see: referenceworks.brillonline.com
For BrillOnline Bibliographies see: bibliographies.brillonline.com